Hello:
I would avoid the Google Knowledge Graph. I have seen instances where it attributes books written by different authors with the same name to the author
the graph features.
Patrick
Patrick Lavey
Senior Cataloging Librarian
Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library
UCLA School of Law
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You can definitely cite VIAF. If you use OCLC, you can do a keyword search for examples. I would recommend NOT citing Google knowledge graphs; they are not stable
or reproducible. They pull that data from some source, so I’d try to track that down instead, and cite that. It may not be permanent, but it would certainly be more fixed than a Google knowledge grach.
David—
David Proch�zka | Music/Special Materials Cataloger | The University of Akron | Bierce Library—261C | Akron, Ohio 44325-1712 | 330-972-6260 |
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Dear NACO brains:
Two questions about sources for NARs:
1)
is it ok to refer to VIAF in a 670?
2)
what do people think about whether we can use the Google
knowledge graph that sometimes appears at the top of a Google search?
--Ben
Benjamin Abrahamse
Cataloging Coordinator
Acquisitions & Discovery Enhancement
MIT Libraries